upgrade advice

[Grim281]

Any advice on the best card a buddy of mine can get without being bottlenecked by his old E6750 clocked at around 3ghz?

 

[bart1975]

HD 6850 or GeForce GTX 560 are decent options.

 

[Madcatatlas]

ye, if he only uses Word, he can get by with the internal gpu..most likely there is one.


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[Necc]

Any advice on the best card a buddy of mine can get without being bottlenecked by his old E6750 clocked at around 3ghz?

Resolution? PSU?

I'd say Gtx460 768mb, anything higher he should get a faster Dual-core or a Quad core.

 

[crisium]

If his PSU and Case can handle it, then I recommend the Radeon 5830:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-878-_-Product

EMCKEHK42 for $10 off

It uses more watts than I'd like (slightly more than 5850)... but that's the best performance for that price range by far. Expect around Radeon 4890 performance. Usually it hangs with the GTX 460 768mb as well. That's probably a good level of performance for 3.0GHz C2D before you start to get diminishing returns.